I work for Halfords (a car parts supplier in England) and we have always used dumb terminals.
There is one server per shop, and approx. 5-6 dumb terminals. The servers are all unix system V (copyrighted before I was born) and provide a flawless system to the terminals. The terminals are 386 processors with 64bytes of cache.
Each night the servers (about 400 in the network) all "call home" to recieve updates and backup data
The system never every breaks. I have worked for them for 5 years and I have never needed to fix any problems, software or hardware. In one store the systems were started July 23 1983 and have an uptime of over 12 years thanks to unix and a UPS
There is something to be said for systems like this where the users dont need to access anything other than essentially a huge database
Alastair
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I work for Halfords (a car parts supplier in England) and we have always used dumb terminals. There is one server per shop, and approx. 5-6 dumb terminals. The servers are all unix system V (copyrighted before I was born) and provide a flawless system to the terminals. The terminals are 386 processors with 64bytes of cache. Each night the servers (about 400 in the network) all "call home" to recieve updates and backup data The system never every breaks. I have worked for them for 5 years and I have never needed to fix any problems, software or hardware. In one store the systems were started July 23 1983 and have an uptime of over 12 years thanks to unix and a UPS There is something to be said for systems like this where the users dont need to access anything other than essentially a huge database Alastair